The first neighborhood to get Google Fiber,
known on the map as Hanover Heights but locally as the Kansas City
Startup Village, is the new home of early stage startups co-locating
near one another to collaborate, leverage resources and to build a
community based around growing a tech business.

“The number of startups in this region of several blocks is over 10
now, but it’s happened quickly and every day I hear of someone new
moving in,” Mike Farmer of mobile search app Leap2 tells Mashable. “The Kansas City Startup Village was not formed with some grand strategy or goal in mind — it came together organically.”

Leap2 is among the first wave of startups moving to the village. In
early November, the company — which was founded in 2011 — moved its
offices from a non-Google Fiber neighborhood in Kansas City to a
connected one. The KC Startup Village consists of other companies such
as Local Ruckus, Eye Verify, Trellie and Form Zapper, as a part of an
initiative to make it a new startup tech hub. ...